Tuesday, February 27, 2007

In an effort to live up to our motto ("Onward, ho!"), AEB's R & D division has recently introduced a few new features to our sidebar:

1. a short list for first-time visitors to Montreal, all those who felt like they got fleeced the last time they visited, and/or those who'd just like to know what our top picks from our "one and only MontrealFood Guide" are2. "From the Desk of AEB": a section documenting our food-related contributions to other publications3. "An endless adventure": a travel section with links to AEB pieces on New York, the Bay Area, Vermont, France, etc.4. "More advertisements for ourselves": a section that lists the many, many places where you can find Švestka preserves5. "An endless passion": a list of recommended titles from the AEB library6. "An online banquet": a list of recommended blogs and other websites having to do with food

This just in: the R & D division has also initiated the use of a new tag inside the pages of our ever-growing Montreal Food Guide--in addition to your old favorites, "NEW!" and "UPDATED!", you'll now find the handy "DEMOTED!" tag. Now, in addition to checking out who's HOT, you also keep tabs on who's NOT.

I love it! (Although my feed doesn't because it just keeps on telling me that "The List" is your newest entry because you update it so much!) I've only gone to two places on the shortlist and I've lived here for almost three years! (And not even the individual shops you listed under Jean-Talon, so 1?) I better get cracking!

Judith Herman and Marguerite Shalett Herman, The Cornucopia, Being a Kitchen Entertainment and Cookbook Containing Good Reading and Good Cookery From More Than 500 Years of Recipes, Food Lore &c. as Conceived and Expounded by the Great Chefs & Gourmets of the Old and New Worlds Between the Years 1390 and 1899 Now Compiled and Presented to the Public in a Single Handsome and Convenient Volume